Join us for our "Vintage Pairs" Blind Tasting on Thursday 22 October 2020

The idea is simple – I put together a tasting of 10 wines, and serve them blind. We guess where the wine is from and what it might be, reveal it, enjoy it, and talk about it. In each pair the two wines will be either the same wine in a different vintage (our classic approach), or the same producer and same vintage, but two cuvées or vineyards from the same grape variety(ies); or the same vineyard and same vintage, but two different producers of the same wine. As we begin each pair I will announce which type of pair it is. 

Here is what we served at the last 3 events –

Session Twenty-nine (8th April 2020)
2010 Domaine des Lambrays Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Clos du Cailleret’
2009 Domaine des Lambrays Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Clos du Cailleret’
2017 Domaine Christian Clerget Chambolle-Musigny
2017 Domaine Christian Clerget Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru ‘Les Charmes’
2016 Cigliuti Barbaresco Vie Erte
2016 Cigliuti Barbaresco Serraboella
2014 Opus One
2014 Ao Yun
2013 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Trockenbeerenauslese
2011 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Trockenbeerenauslese 

Session Thirty (3rd June 2020)
2013 Weingut Dr. Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Trocken Grosses Gewächs Réserve
2013 Weingut Dr. Loosen Prälat Tocken Grosses Gewächs Réserve
2016 Weingut H.J. Kreuzberg Devonshiefer Spätburgunder ‘R’ Auktion
2016 Deutzerhof Grand Duc Reserve Spätburgunder ’30 Monate Barrique’ Auktion
2001 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d’Alba
1998 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d’Alba
1996 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
1996 Château Montrose
2016 Maximin Grünhaus Herrenberg Eiswein
1993 Maximin Grünhaus Herrenberg Eiswein

Session Thirty-one (22nd August 2020)
2014 Champagne Georges Laval - Les Hautes Chèvres 1er Cru Brut Nature 
2012 Champagne Georges Laval - Les Hautes Chèvres 1er Cru Brut Nature
2002 Domaine Drouhin - Pinot Noir 'Cuvée Laurène' 
2002 Beaux Frères - The ‘Beaux Frères Vineyard' Pinot Noir 
2015 Vietti - Barbera d'Alba 'Scarrone Vigna Vecchia' 
2015 Vietti - Barolo Ravera 
1994 López de Heredia - Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva 
1994 Vega Sicilia - Unico 
2013 Jean-René Germanier - Cayas Reserve Syrah 
2013 Xavier Gérard – Côte-Rôtie 

Of course, the wine selection for Thursday 22nd October will be completely different. But I assure you it will be interesting, and good value for the modest ticket price – we won’t reveal in advance what we will be tasting as that spoils part of the fun.

The event is a tasting – not a dinner – and so we start at 6.45pm prompt, and are finished by 8pm, so you can get to your dinner afterwards. Think of this as the most fun ‘cocktail hour’ of the month!